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October 4, 2001 • Volume 48, Number 15

  • Brian Urquhart

    The Tragedy of Lumumba e-edition

    The Assassination of Lumumba by Ludo De Witte, translated from the Dutch by Ann Wright and Renée Fenby

  • John Russell

    Face to Face with Seurat e-edition

    Seurat: Drawings and Paintings by Robert L. Herbert

  • Rosemary Dinnage

    The Crack-Up e-edition

    The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon

    Where the Roots Reach for Water: A Personal and Natural History of Melancholia by Jeffery Smith

    The Nature of Melancholy: From Aristotle to Kristeva edited by Jennifer Radden

  • James Traub

    Judgment Day e-edition

    A Trial by Jury by D. Graham Burnett

    A Cold Case by Philip Gourevitch

  • Hermione Lee

    The Unknown Edith Wharton e-edition

    Edith Wharton: Collected Stories, 1891–1910 selected and with notes by Maureen Howard

    Edith Wharton: Collected Stories, 1911–1937 selected and with notes by Maureen Howard

  • Frederick C. Crews

    Saving Us from Darwin

    The Wedge of Truth: Splitting the Foundations of Naturalism by Phillip E. Johnson

    Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution Is Wrong by Jonathan Wells

    Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution by Michael J. Behe

    Mere Creation: Science, Faith and Intelligent Design edited by William A. Dembski

    Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science and Theology by William A. Dembski

    Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationism by Robert T. Pennock

    Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution by Kenneth R. Miller

  • Daniel Mendelsohn

    Harold Pinter’s Celebration e-edition

    Harold Pinter Festival presented by the Lincoln Center Festival 2001

    The Spaces Between the Words: A Tribute to Harold Pinter presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center

    The Room by Harold Pinter

    The Homecoming by Harold Pinter

    Landscape by Harold Pinter

    Monologue by Harold Pinter

    A Kind of Alaska by Harold Pinter

    One for the Road by Harold Pinter

    Mountain Language by Harold Pinter

    Ashes to Ashes by Harold Pinter

    Celebration by Harold Pinter

  • Robert Cottrell

    Russia: Was There a Better Way? e-edition

    The Tragedy of Russia’s Reforms: Market Bolshevism Against Democracy by Peter Reddaway and Dmitri Glinski

  • John Leonard

    Puppet Show e-edition

    Fury by Salman Rushdie

  • John Banville

    Fathers and Sons e-edition

    The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848–1914 by J.W. Burrow

  • Caroline Fraser

    Pretty in the Sunlight e-edition

    Paradise by Larry McMurtry

  • Peter Gay

    Witness to Fascism e-edition

    Journal, 1935–1944 by Mihail Sebastian,translated from the Romanian by Patrick Camiller, with an introduction by Radu Ioanid

  • Keith Thomas

    ‘A Modern Socrates’ e-edition

    Peiresc’s Europe: Learning and Virtue in the Seventeenth Century by Peter N. Miller

  • Stephen Jay Gould

    The Man Who Set the Clock Back e-edition

    The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology by Simon Winchester

  • M.F. Perutz,
    Colleen Fuller,
    Erik Lichtenberg, et al.

    ‘Genes in the Food’: An Exchange

LETTERS

Contributors

Brian Urquhart is a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations. His books include Hammarskjöld, A Life in Peace and War, and Ralph Bunche: An American Life. (April 2011)

John Russell was formerly Chief Art Critic of The New York Times, to which he continues to be a contributor. He is at work on a short history of the museum since 1800. (March 2003)

James Traub is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. He is currently writing a book about Times Square. (February 2002)

Daniel Mendelsohn is the author of six books, including How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, a collection of critical essays mostly from The New York Review of Books. He is the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard.

Rosemary Dinnage’s books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.

Hermione Lee is the author of a biography of Virginia Woolf and of Virginia Woolf’s Nose: Essays on Biography, which has recently appeared in paperback. Her new biography, Edith Wharton, has just been published. (May 2007)

Frederick Crews is a fellow of the Institute for Science in Medicine. His most recent book is Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays. (October 2011)

Robert Cottrell has served as a Moscow bureau chief for both The Economist and the Financial Times. (June 2007)

John Leonard writes on books every month for Harper’s and on television every week for New York magazine. (June 2007)

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, and Eclipse. Banville’s novel The Sea was awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize. A Death in Summer, a novel written under the pseudonym Benjamin Black, was published in July 2011.


Caroline Fraser ‘s most recent book, Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution, was published in December. (May 2010)

Peter Gay is Director of the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He wrote Schnitzler’s Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture, 1815–1914.

Stephen Jay Gould teaches Geology, Biology, and the History of Science at Harvard and is the Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at NYU. His latest book is The Lying Stones of Marrakech. (October 2001)

M. F. Perutz, former Chairman of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962. He is the author of Is Science Necessary?, Protein Structure, and, most recently, I Wish I’d Made You Angry Earlier. (November 2001)

Richard C. Lewontin is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change and Biology as Ideology, and the co-author of The Dialectical Biologist (with Richard Levins) and Not in Our Genes (with Steven Rose and Leon Kamin).

Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His latest book is The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfillment in Early Modern England. (December 2009)

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor at Bard and a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library. His latest book is Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents.